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Why whites must join fight for black justice – Erin Heaney / USA Today
White-Collar Supremacy : The Alt-right Movement – Kelly J. Baker / NYT
Tallahassee, Fla. — Richard B. Spencer is one of the main figures of the alt-right movement, a former doctoral student from Duke whose movement supports…
A Young Black Girl’s View of Harlem at the Height of the Great Migration – Emily Raboteau / The New Yorker
Mildred Harris was born in South Carolina in 1926. She moved to Harlem as a baby, when her parents, Eddie and Jessie Mae Harris, joined…
The Enduring Importance of Identity Liberalism – Lovia Gyarkye / New Republic
The Standing Rock Resistance Is Unprecedented (It’s Also Centuries Old) – Leah Donnella / NPR
‘Let’s party like it’s 1933’: Inside the alt-right world of Richard Spencer – John Woodrow Cox / Wash Post
Anti-Defamation League Official: Racist Incidents ‘A Wake-Up Call’ – NPR Staff
Sweeping New Rutgers Report Reveals University’s Ties to Slavery & Displacement of Native Americans – Juan Gonzalez / Democracy Now
A sweeping new report reveals ties to slavery and the displacement of the Native Americans at one of the country’s top colleges. The findings about…
A Harvard professor argues that fixing America’s urban poverty will require a dramatically different approach – Alana Semuels / The Atlantic
Poor, black neighborhoods have persisted in America for decades. And despite a few public-policy efforts to make things better—which include helping families move to other…
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy by Heather Ann Thompson
A NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR THE FIRST DEFINITIVE HISTORY OF THE INFAMOUS 1971 ATTICA PRISON UPRISING, THE STATE’S VIOLENT…
Postscript: Sharon Jones, 1956-2016 – Amanda Petrusich / The New Yorker
More black people jailed in England and Wales proportionally than in US – Randeep Ramesh / The Guardian
Trump Advisers Call for National Muslim Registry, Echoing Nazis’ Early Steps in Targeting Jews – Steven Rosenfeld / Alternet
Donald Trump Rages, at the Wrong Target- The Editorial Board / NYT
Millions of Americans are justifiably frightened by the tide of racism, anti-Semitism and xenophobia that has swept the country since the election of Donald Trump,…
The love story that changed history: Fascinating photographs of interracial marriage at a time when it was banned in 16 states – Lydia Warren / Daily Mail
Just 45 years ago, 16 states deemed marriages between two people of different races illegal. But in 1967, the U.S. Supreme Court considered the case…
Race/Related: Conversations. Trump Voters. On Race – Rachel L. Swarns / NYT
To resist a Trump presidency, ask: “What would the abolitionists do?” Linda Hirsham / Wash Post
The Identity Politics of Whiteness – Laila Lalami / NYT Magazine
This Wasn’t a Working-Class Revolt. It Was a White Revolt – Tamara Draut / Bill Moyers & Company
Ideología: The Roots of Latino Dissatisfaction – Juhem Navarro-Rivera / Demos
White Nationalists Celebrate ‘an Awakening’ After Donald Trump’s Victory – Alan Rappeport and Noah Weiland / NYT
‘I Am Not Your Negro’ Is A Race Documentary That Should Be Essential Viewing For All Americans – Matthew Jacobs / Huff Post
You won’t find a documentary over the next few months that’s more important than “I Am Not Your Negro.” Raoul Peck uses James Baldwin’s unfinished…
White nationalism, a term once on the fringes, now front and center : What is it? – Joe Sterling / CNN
Why Donald Trump’s election means we must work together for a Third Reconstruction in America – Dr. William J. Barber II / Bill Moyers & Company
The reactionary wave that swept across America with the election of Donald Trump is not an anomaly in our history. It is an all-too-familiar pattern…
2016, Meet 1877: Trump’s Ascendance Is Creepily Like the End of Reconstruction – Barrett Holmes Pitner/ The Daily Beast
Research says there are ways to reduce racial bias. Calling people racist isn’t one of them – German Lopez / Vox
